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• arkizzle / Moderator commented on Naples Mafia selling poison bread, Chinese adding melamine powder to infant formula
  Bean, I don't think it's the microbes, but the varnishes and wood-stain that is the issue....
• Beanolini commented on Naples Mafia selling poison bread, Chinese adding melamine powder to infant formula
  If it's the varnishes, why even mention that it's from a coffin? It's a cheap appeal to ick-factor. Dioxins and carcinogenic substances will be produced in any wood-burning oven, not just a coffin-burning mob oven....
• Cicada commented on Naples Mafia selling poison bread, Chinese adding melamine powder to infant formula
  @ Bart- No, they can just correct it. Prevention is really beyond the bounds of any force-- free market or governmental. (Bribe the inspector, for example)...
• dainel commented on Naples Mafia selling poison bread, Chinese adding melamine powder to infant formula
  Why add poison to milk to boost it's protein content? Why not simply claim higher protein content and do nothing? It'll be cheaper. But if you're going to go to the trouble to fool the tests, wouldn't it make more sense to use something that isn't actually poisonous? Adding poison pretty much guarantees that you'd be caught when your customers start to die in a few weeks/months time. The situation in China with all these adulterated foods sounds a lot like the UK 150 years ago, or the US 100 years ago, before the formation of the FDA. What those...
• Antinous / Moderator commented on Naples Mafia selling poison bread, Chinese adding melamine powder to infant formula
  More than 6,200 babies have fallen ill after drinking milk made from contaminated powder, Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu has announced. The figure is five times higher than previously announced. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7620253.stm...